A suspected terrorist will appear in court today in connection with the discovery of a mortar rocket in north Belfast.

The Orange Order has withdrawn an application to parade past Ardoyne on September 29 as part of the Ulster Covenant rally.

The future of the Parades Commission will be debated this September following agreement between the first minister and deputy first minister on renewed efforts to tackle the Ardoyne flashpoint.

Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has called on the Orange Order "to step forward and make their contribution to the peace process".

STRAW polls would suggest that if Mary McAleese could run again for the Presidency, she would walk it. But the Constitution says presidents can be re-elected “only once”. Thank goodness.

Proposed laws on parading in the North were redrawn in response to a public outcry over claims they undermined people’s right to assemble, it was announced today.

A teenager has been charged with riotous assembly in Belfast over the Twelfth period.

FORMER Taoiseach Garrett FitzGerald waded into the row over Fine Gael’s corporate backing last night by insisting such links should be banned.

At least 200 suspects are being hunted by detectives investigating serious republican rioting in north Belfast, it was revealed today.

A north Belfast couple were tonight preparing to flee their home after a sectarian petrol bomb attack which they say could easily have killed their 18-day-old son.

A priest warned today that feuding which killed two people should end before more lives are lost.

A priest today revealed how dissident republican terrorists told him to warn 11 youths to flee the North or face immediate execution.

Dozens of lives could be saved with the opening of a new support centre in a suicide blackspot, a victim’s father claimed today.

More than 20 police officers are still on sick leave after the ferocious rioting in Belfast earlier this year, it was revealed tonight.

Thousands of loyalists are expected to take part in a major rally in Belfast this afternoon.

Security minister Shaun Woodward today pledged a major crackdown on the sectarian thugs attacking pensioners and childrens’ homes in north Belfast.

Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain tonight defended his controversial decision to release the Shankill bomber Sean Kelly.

SINN FÉIN president Gerry Adams yesterday refused to speculate when the IRA will come forward with its anticipated statement on the future of the organisation.

Police tonight accused dissident republicans of trying to kill police officers during rioting in North Belfast last night.

A police chief today urged officers to fire baton rounds sooner, in a bid to halt any repeat of the rioting that left nearly 90 people injured in Belfast.

A JOURNALIST and a policeman were injured last night as rioting erupted in North Belfast.

A journalist and a policeman were injured tonight as rioting erupted in north Belfast.

JUSTICE Minister Michael McDowell last night insisted he was campaigning for an SDLP general election candidate in a personal capacity following criticism of his visit to Belfast by Sinn Féin.

The senior police officer who allowed loyalists to march past the Ardoyne against the wishes of the Parades Commission last summer has been put in charge of policing in nationalist West Belfast.

Sinn Féin has clashed with the Police Federation, which represents rank and file police officers, after the Federation criticised those who oppose loyalist parades.

There were angry confrontations between police and nationalists in the village of Maghera, in Co Derry this morning.

A Belfast police chief who headed the security operation surrounding a bitterly-contested Orange march that ended in violence today hit back in the face of rising Nationalist fury.

The Taoiseach has expressed concern at the fact that Loyalists were allowed to return through Ardoyne in Belfast last night against the wishes of the Parades Commission.

Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy today called for Orange Order parades tomorrow to be “peaceful and dignified“.

A MAJOR drive was launched yesterday to stop the spate of teenage suicides in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast.

The Protestant Orange Order has claimed that the Good Friday Agreement is incapable of delivering fair and just government and insisted there can be no cabinet places for Sinn Féin until the IRA has disappeared.

BELFAST parish priest Fr Aidan Troy yesterday described the tarring of two Ardoyne teenagers, victims of a so-called punishment attack by the INLA republican paramilitary group, as child abuse.

Fresh violence has erupted in north Belfast this evening, with nationalists and loyalists throwing missiles at each other across the peaceline separating nationalist Ardoyne from the loyalist Glenbryn estate.

Reports of gunfire in a volatile north Belfast district where a bitterly disputed loyalist march took place were tonight being probed by police.

The North’s tourist industry is losing a massive two hundred and fifty million pounds a year because of sectarian violence linked to annual Orange parades.

The DUP has blamed Sinn Fein for last night’s riots in north Belfast, claiming they were designed to provoke a Protestant reaction.

The President Mary McAleese has sent a letter of support to the people of the Ardoyne involved in the Holy Cross Primary School standoff.

The Taoiseach is calling for urgent talks at local level to resolve the siege of the Holy Cross national school in north Belfast.

Sinn Fein says the scenes at the Holy Cross Catholic School are worse than